We checked out Buffalo Bill State Park Campground first. Even though it had electric and was kind of scenic it was out on a dirt road. Nice place to camp but not so convenient for area sight seeing. GPS also took us to the wrong location so we ended up just following the signs which can be somewhat problematic on unfamiliar roads. We had camped at Holiday Park on several occasions but this was the first time we visited venues or even drove into the town of North Platte. After setting up the trailer we went for a walk on a concrete canal path near the park and the next day we went to Buffalo Bill’s historic ranch. The famed frontiersman had the ranch house barns and other buildings built on empty land in North Platte near the Union Pacific rail yard. He called the ranch Scouts Rest and planned to retire there but a conversation with the Mayor over a July Fourth celebration launched his career as an international showman.
This career ended when one of his three show trains was involved in a fatal crash destroying many of his specially trained horses. William Cody better known as Buffalo Bill was a great under appreciated American and one of the only civilian Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. Paid women and Indians the same as he paid white men and was more complicated then the "Dime Store Cowboy" he is portrayed as. If you havnt read his autobiography ,still available in libraries you should.
